PIA POSPISCHIL

* 21.04.1995 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

Pia Pospischil's artistic focus lies in the fields of installation, sculpture, and video. In her multimedia works, she engages, on the one hand, with interpersonal relationships within various constellations and structures. On the other hand, she explores collective patterns within consumption and dependency relationships. She investigates these in terms of their entanglement with the value system of a modern, performance-oriented society. The openness in her choice of materials allows her to work in a topic-driven way at the intersection between reality and artificial exaggeration.

Since 2017, alongside her own artistic practice, she has worked closely with the artist collective Dünne Jungs. In their joint work, Ariane Koziolek, Lynn Scheidweiler, and Pia Pospischil engage in sociological investigations of the human being within a social context. In this exploration, the artists focus their approach on holistic experience through the creation of spatial installations with a narrative and interdisciplinary approach.

She has also been part of the curatorial team of the Galerie Gruppe Motto since 2024 — an artist-run space that works almost exclusively with open calls and focuses primarily on the investigation of broad thematic areas such as time, happiness, water, food, machine, and fairy tale.

In February, she joined the newly formed team of Hamburg Art Week CROSSING CURRENTS, where she is responsible for curation and coordination for the founding edition in 2026.

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026
Graduation Show, HFBK Hamburg
World Youth Art Event 2026, CAA Hangzhou, China
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg

2025
Whisper Down the Lane, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Last Minute, Künstler:innenhaus Frise, Hamburg
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg

2024
LOVE CRASH, Schweizer 5, Frankfurt am Main
Collected Currents, Galerie Bremen Mitte im KUBO, Bremen
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg

2023
Landscape of Questions + Answers, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart
Landscape of Questions + Answers, Ladøns Galerie, Hamburg
Out Of The Blue, Boehringer Areal, Göppingen
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg

2022
Landscape of Questions + Answers, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin
Photography in Context, ICAT at HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg
Annual Exhibition, HFBK Hamburg

CURATION GALERIE GRUPPE MOTTO

2026
TIME
YOU & ME

2025
FAIRY TALE
MACHINE

2024
HOUSE

AWARDS/FUNDINGS

2026
Invitation to the World Youth Art Event in Hangzhou, China

2024 + 2025 + 2026
Galerie Gruppe Motto funded by BKM Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, and Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

2023
Funding from HFBK Hamburg
Funding from Sparkasse Göppingen
Funding from Stiftung Prolok
Funding from the Landeskulturamt Baden-Württemberg

2015 + 2016
Akademiepreis, ABK Stuttgart

2015
Akademiepreis, ABK Stuttgart

EDUCATION

2021–2026
Fine Art, Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK),
Prof. Simon Denny, Prof. Thomas Demand, Prof. Ed Atkins, and Prof. Anna Uddenberg

2014–2020
Stage and Costume Design, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart,
Prof. Martin Zehetgruber and Prof. Bettina Walter
Guest semester: Fine Art, Prof. Birgit Brenner
Erasmus 2017: Scenography at MKE Budapest